-Cole and Lawler discuss the upcoming CM Punk/Batista title match. They recap an interview with Punk from Monday, when Grisham asks him about the doubt in the fans’ minds that Punk can hold on to the title against Batista. Punk discusses that people have always doubted him, he was never supposed to make it to the WWE, win titles, make it to Raw, and then become the World Champion. Punk is in the business of proving everyone wrong.

Chris Jericho vs. Shawn Michaels
After a lengthy stare down, they tie up, with Jericho quickly turning to brawling tactics. HBK speeds things up and dishes out a knife edge chop. Jericho reverses a hard Irish whip, but runs into HBK’s boot. HBK tackles the back of Jericho’s knee and goes right for a figure four variation. HBK is already selling his ribs, by the way, which the announcers are really selling as a focal point of the match. The hold is broken, and Jericho uses the corner to shield himself from HBK’s clubbing blows. Jericho whips HBK into the turnbuckle and drop-kicks him to the floor. Both men are already selling heavily, but it works so far as they are trying to injure one another. Jericho is in firm control now, attacking HBK at ringside and directing traffic back to the ring. Jericho is targeting HBK’s midsection, psychology FTW!!~ HBK fights out of a stretch and slugs things out with Jericho before eating an enziguri. Jericho dishes out some slams and goes high risk. HBK counters with an atomic drop. HBK hurts himself doing the kip up, and finds himself trapped in the Walls of Jericho. HBK is trapped in the Walls for a superhuman amount of time before finally getting a rope break. Jericho argues with the ref and blocks a surprise Sweet Chin Music attempt. Jericho hit’s a hard Irish whip, but HBK blocks a bulldog with a hard shot to the face. Cover by Michaels gets 2. HBK goes high risk, but Jericho shakes the ropes. HBK blocks Jericho’s superplex attempts and kicks him to the mat hard. HBK connects with the flying elbow drop! HBK signals Sweet Chin Music, but Lance Cade runs in and makes the distraction. HBK blocks the Code Breaker and gets a near fall. HBK dumps Jericho out of the ring, right onto Cade. HBK hit’s a moonsault off the top onto both Cade and Jericho at ringside! HBK’s injured eye is busted open by a wild elbow shot from Jericho. The action returns to the ring, where Jericho is now directly targeting the bloodied eye. HBK is in a daze and misses his swings. Jericho smells blood and continues the aggressive assault to the eyes. Cade even gets a cheap shot in, proving he’s not completely worthless. Jericho gets cocky and finds himself victim to a surprise Crossface from Michaels. Jericho fights to his feet and drops HBK head first into the bottom rope. HBK begs the referee not to stop the match due to his blood loss, but doesn’t seem to stand a chance against Jericho’s flurries of assault. Jericho wraps himself around HBK, choking him with his own arm. The referee pulls Jericho off and calls for the bell at 18:18. That beating at the end went way too long, but this was a good story match up until the last eight minutes or so, **¾.Winner: Chris Jericho

Divas Championship:
Michelle McCool vs. Natalya Neidhart
This match is for the “honor” of being the first Divas Champion. Michelle takes control in the early going, since she’s the baby face and all. Natalya bounces Michelle off of her, but Michelle lands on her feet and is kicking. Natalya hangs up Michelle on the ropes. Natalya wraps up Michelle in a surfboard arch stretch! That’s the coolest spot of this entire show thus far. Michelle fights out and reverses into a heel hook. Natalya stretches Michelle against the ring post and makes good use of the five count. Cover by Natalya gets 2. Natalya applies the sharp shooter and this could be over! Michelle gets the rope break, which only angers Natalya. Michelle counters a second sharp shooter with the heel hook. Natalya holds out for a bit, but taps at 4:43. Not bad at all, *¾.Winner and the first Divas Champion: Michelle McCool

-Eve and Cherry come out to celebrate with Michelle, but they are cut off by Chris Jericho on the stage. Jericho has some important news. He wants everyone to take their ticket stubs and preserve them, because they are from the night that HBK had his last match. Apparently, Michaels has been diagnosed with a detached retina, and that means he’s finished. Bryan Danielson begs to differ. However, Jericho claims this proves that sometimes the good guy wins and the wicked gets theirs. You see, for Shawn Michaels, the worst is over now.

-Punk celebrates with the title, as if he won the match. This angers Batista, who hits the Batista Bomb on Punk. The crowd wasn’t happy with that move at all.

NYC Parking Lot Brawl:
John Bradshaw Layfield vs. John Cena
This is one of those weird matches where most of it is pretaped and the fans who paid to get into the arena have to watch it on a screen, just like the viewers at home. JBL makes his way to the garage first, and is surrounded by parked cars. JBL looks worried, since he tried murdering Cena on Raw by running him over. JBL climbs on top of a red car looking for Cena, when suddenly the car right behind him is on! Cena crashes his car into the car JBL is standing on and begins his physical assault. Cena incorporates the parked cars (and their accessories) as weapons. Cena even steals Kane’s 2003 attack on Shane McMahon, roasting JBL’s nuts with a car battery. JBL finally fights back after trying to escape. JBL whips Cena violently into an open car door! This gives JBL the edge for a while, and the brawl continues around and on top of the cars. Eventually, JBL gets murder in his eyes again, as he fetches a gas can from his limousine. With Cena planted in a car, JBL pours the gas all over the outside. JBL sets the car on fire, so I hope the police are watching the pay-per-view. Firemen storm in and put out the blaze. Cena is pissed now and the brawl is back on. Cena plants JBL inside a car and then fetches a fork lift. Cena crashes the fork lift into the car and then lifts it up. Cena drives the fork lift out to the arena and stands on the car, as if he’s just caught some prey. JBL crawls out, but Cena isn’t finished with him. They brawl up the stage. Cena back drops JBL onto the steel stage and hit’s the five knuckle shuffle. Cena goes for the F-U on the stage, but then reconsiders. Instead, he carries JBL to the edge, but JBL fights back and sends Cena crashing off the stage onto the windshield. JBL crawls onto him for the cover and gets the win at 15:10. This was as ridiculous and over the top as it needed to be. Most of this felt like a movie fight scene, so no rating, but it was fun to watch.Winner: John Bradshaw Layfield

Final thoughts:The crowd was pretty decent, considering they were in Long Island. Maybe they deserved a better show, as nothing here really stood out. The only two matches that had some momentum going (Batista/Punk and Hardy/Benjamin) both ended abruptly and were ultimately unsatisfying. Also, I question the logic in making Punk celebrate his DQ title retain, as that should be the seeds of a heel turn but the writers are typically so incompetent that I’m not sure. There was only one bad match on the card and lots of little things to like, but there is nothing here worth going out of your way to see.